Byju’s founder floats share offer to make peace with estranged investors
<div><p>Byju Raveendran, the founder of embattled edtech group Byju’s, has made a last-ditch attempt to placate disgruntled investors. He just informed them that the board is weighing an offer of renounced shares — shares that a company offers to shareholders at a discount to allow them to buy more shares — to prevent the dilution […]</p>
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X’s Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5
<div><p>X.ai, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not-to-distant future (“in the coming days,” X.ai writes in a blog post), Grok-1.5 appears to be a measurable upgrade over its predecessor, Grok-1 — at least judging by the benchmark results and […]</p>
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Bumble’s new CEO talks about her critical mission: to spice things up at the company
<div><p>The bigger concern for Bumble is user fatigue. People aren't downloading dating apps as enthusiastically as they once were, which means less subscription revenue.</p>
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SBF’s prison sentence marks the end of the crypto grift era — so what’s next?
<div><p>Nearly everything else that's being built on or enabled by blockchains replaces something that's already being done fairly well.</p>
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Google DeepMind unveils ‘superhuman’ AI system that excels in fact-checking, saving costs and improving accuracy
Google DeepMind researchers have developed a new AI system that excels in fact-checking, outperforming human annotators and saving costs, but critics question what 'superhuman' really means in this context.Read More
SambaNova announces new AI Samba-CoE v0.2 that already beats Databricks DBRX
What makes this achievement particularly notable is the efficiency of the model—it achieves these speeds without compromising on precision.Read More
Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons
<div><p>A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. It’s a comparison into which the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland leaned heavily in last week’s filing. While portions of the United […]</p>
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Elon Musk Announces Significant Changes to X. Here's What to Know
Elon Musk has announced new changes to X (formerly Twitter) that will allow certain accounts to unlock premium features.
Elon Musk reveals plan for next Starship mission
Elon Musk has revealed the goals for the next Starship mission following another successful test of the world’s biggest ...
RBC analyst: Investors are not focused on Elon Musk’s ketamine use
RBC Capital global autos analyst Tom Narayan and Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel discuss Elon Musk’s reported ...
Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implant to ultimately help humans merge with AI is sparking debate over safety and ethics
Elon Musk's Neuralink wants its brain chip to help treat neurological conditions, and, in the long term, to reduce the risks ...
Jeff Bezos Overtakes Elon Musk As Richest Person In The US—13th Flip-Flop This Month
Musk and Bezos have been in a month-long contest for the title of wealthiest person in the U.S., flip-flopping almost daily ...
Will Elon Musk accept Dogecoin on X? What to know about the cryptocurrency
Whether you’re interested in crypto or not, you’ve probably heard of Dogecoin. This meme-based cryptocurrency — Elon Musk’s ...
Elon Musk grants an unusual gift to his followers
They can get Premium for free if they have more than 2500 verified followers. When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October ...
Elon Musk's X tests 'adult content' label for X-rated Communities
Unlike most social media companies, Elon Musk's X does allow users to publish adult content. This wasn't a new policy ...
Uber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won
<div><p>On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November 2019 to pick up jobs delivering food on Uber’s platform. The news raises questions about […]</p>
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SydeLabs raises $2.5M seed to develop an intent-based firewall guard for AI
SydeLabs launched its red teaming solution, SydeBox, on March 1, 2024, and has since seen adoption from 15+ enterprises that have detected over 10,000 vulnerabilities across 50+ applications/models.Read More
Activision investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players
<div><p>Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that’s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned. At this point, the hackers’ specific goals — apart from stealing passwords for various types of accounts — are unclear. Somehow, the hackers are getting malware on the victims’ computers and then stealing […]</p>
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Rooster Teeth to launch final Red vs Blue season as a movie
Rooster Teeth's Red vs. Blue will return with on final season as a full-length movie, called Restoration, which launches on May 7.Read More
MineOS aims to illuminate the AI ‘black box’ for enterprise
MineOS enters the high-stakes race for enterprise AI governance with a new module designed to peer inside the black box of AI systems and provide the visibility needed for oversight and control.Read More